Doing the right thing?

For once, the First Minister appears to be paying appropriate care and attention to stopping the MSPs' gravy train. The Herald reports:

"Jack McConnell has ordered a review of one of the most lucrative of MSP allowances amid concerns that people are cashing in on the capital's property boom. The first minister yesterday asked the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body to review the controversial Edinburgh Accommodation Allowance, which allows MSPs who live more than 90 minutes from Edinburgh to claim up to £10,600 a year for a mortgage on a second home. Around 50 MSPs are thought to have taken advantage of the scheme since devolution, and some are believed to have sold on their homes for large profits."

Would it be unduly cynical to note that the overwhelming majority of Labour MSPs live within 90 minutes from Edinburgh? And that those who benefit from this Allowance are those MSPs from the Highlands and Islands, the North-East and the South-West, few of whom tend to be of the Labour persuasion?